Katana – I don’t know how iPhone destruction fits into the Code of the Samurai, but I do know this is a hypnotic display of swordsmanship and disregard for mobile technology.

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10/5/2011

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Bricks

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Lawnmower – You should never turn a lawnmower upside-down, and you should never drop your iPhone onto the spinning blades. This GIF shows you why.

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Bowling Ball – iPhone v. Bowling Ball is at least as good as Batman v Superman – maybe better, depending on how you ask.

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Arrow – We’ll close things out with a little cautionary tale, that shows that when you destroy your iPhone, sometimes you can cause more damage than you intended.

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Gun – This one is pretty straightforward, showing what happens when you shoot an iPhone at near point-blank range (spoiler: It breaks).

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Liquid Nitrogen/Sledgehammer – This is a double-team of sorts, showing an iPhone that’s been frozen solid with liquid nitrogen and then smashed with a sledgehammer.

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Hydraulic Press – The way this iPhone’s screen flies off towards the camera would make this GIF a could candidate for 3D conversion – get on it, Hollywood.

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Innovations

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Changing the World

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Really Big Gun – “Shot” doesn’t really describe to what happens to this iPhone 6 with any degree of justice.

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Ax – Axes were made to chop wood and/or skulls, but as it turns out they work pretty well on iPhones as well.

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Lava – This one may not be the most visually satisfying of the lot, but it gets points for sheer outlandishness and ambition – going all the way to a source of molten lava just do destroy an iPhone takes character.

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Explosive Tape – You have to look closely at this one, but if you do you’ll see an entire bundle of iPhones being tested against explosive laser cutting tape, designed to cut through solid steel.

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Boiled Crayon – Here we have a concise and to-the-point illustration of why it is not a good idea to boil your iPhone in melted crayon.

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AR-74 – Not just one or two iPhones but a whole damn row of them succumb to the power of an AR-74-fired bullet in this captivating destruction GIF.